Sunday, August 7, 2011

Next Project

Here is my next project! I'm collaborating with Sister Ansgar Holmberg to create a large mosaic based on her painting for a new assisted living home. Here is her original painting:

This is the design (see below). It has the original painting in the center, but it's been extended by a circle to echo the interior design theme. There will also be a mosaic border, shown here only with the mustard color.

Here is the board. It is 5'9.5" square made of two layers of wedi board. I made it so the pieces are arranged so there are no straight lines all the way across. This will make it stronger.

I used an overhead projector to trace the design onto the board.

The center green space and all of the buildings will be on a 1/4" raised panel.

Getting started! I'm going to try to tame the greens with more yellow based greens.

2 comments:

I'm using french cleats on the back. Attach one to the piece pointing down and one to the wall pointing up, then it just hooks on. A frame will be attached to the wall then, but it doesn't support the piece, just decorative, (and keeps anyone from being able to lift it off the wall.)